Madlala-Routledge

• 'Worse Than Apartheid'

On Monday they visited Nablus, the most imprisoned city in the West Bank. From Hawara to the Casbah, from the Casbah to Balata, from Joseph's Tomb to the monastery of Jacob's Well. They traveled from Jerusalem to Nablus via Highway 60, observing the imprisoned villages that have no access to the main road, and seeing the "roads for the natives," which pass under the main road. They saw and said nothing. There were no separate roads under apartheid. They went through the Hawara checkpoint mutely: they never had such barriers. Jody Kollapen, who was head of Lawyers for Human Rights in the apartheid regime, watches silently. He sees the "carousel" into which masses of people are jammed on their way to work, visit family or go to the hospital, Israeli peace activist Neta Golan, who lived fo...

• Arab American News, The
• August 27, 2009

• South Africa Wages Intensified War Against Aids Epidemic

The Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa - The abused and orphaned children in Pastor Julius Bonani's church are the face of an AIDS epidemic that is killing nearly 1,000 South Africans a day and infecting even more.

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• May 28, 2008

• World at a Glance

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras | An 80-year-old U.S. evangelical missionary was beaten to death in his home in western Honduras by two men he had hired to do construction work, police said Thursday. The missionary, identified as Ralph Madisson, was found unconscious late Wednesday on the floor of his home in the village of San Juan, said police spokesman Nelson Zambrano.

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• August 10, 2007

• Health Minister Missed World Aids Day, but Was Not Missed ; Contrarian's Vegetable 'Remedy' Shunned

World AIDS Day has come and gone, but there is still no sign of South Africa's health minister, Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, who has questioned the link between HIV and AIDS, and suggested that a potion of garlic, beet root and potato can keep the disease at bay. In August, the contrarian minister, lampooned at home as "Dr. Beet Root," was verbally abused at an AIDS conference in Toronto when she set out the South African booth with vegetables and gave no space to life-saving anti-retroviral drugs, or ARVs.

• The Washington Times
• December 06, 2006

• In South Africa's Aids Battle, Tide Is Turning

By Clare Nullis The Associated Press

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• May 25, 2008

• Arms over AIDS in South Africa: why the boys had to have their toys.

• Alternatives: Global, Local, Political
• Vol. 30 Nbr. 3, July 2005

• They Said It

Government forecasters continue to predict two to four hurricanes could strike the U.S. coastline this year. Gerry Bell , lead hurricane forecaster for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, warned residents not to let their guard down. Complacency isn't good. The fact we've seen no hurricanes means absolutely nothing and has no relevance to the rest of the season.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• August 11, 2007

• Around the World

'AIDS apocalypse' alleged in S. Africa CAPE TOWN, South Africa A former U.N. envoy accused South Africa's leader of presiding over an "AIDS apocalypse," saying Wednesday that President Thabo Mbeki's dismissal of the country's widely praised deputy health minister last week crushed a glimmer of hope in the fight against the epidemic.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• August 16, 2007